Christianity: sacred texts and revered writings

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This study demonstrates the importance of including narrative ethics in a construction of Old Testament ethics, as a correction for the current state of marginalisation of narrative in this discipline.

In the web of cultural processes of late antiquity ablution rites and initiation rites were performed in different forms and in different contexts.

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This book investigates the relationship between cult and ethics in the book of Isaiah.

The book investigates Ben Sira's attitudes toward all matters pertaining to sexuality in the context of family relations and gender issues.

Nowadays many scholars are intensively studying the Book of Ben Sira in its different versions.

Private associations organized around a common cult, profession, ethnic identity, neighbourhood or family were common throughout the Greco-Roman antiquity, offering opportunities for sociability, cultic activities, mutual support and a context in which to display and recognize virtuous achievement.

This study analyzes an oral performance of the entire Gospel of Mark, with emphasis on involvement with characters and events, the emotional effects of such involvement, and how these processes maintain or shape the identity of those who hear the Gospel.

Im Zentrum von Origenes’ Arbeit stand stets die Exegese der Hl.

Since Origen and Chrysostom, John's Gospel has been valued as the most spiritual among the New Testament writings.

In this book Vincent Sénéchal presents a detailed inquiry to solve an enigma: Why does the retelling of the Golden Calf narrative in Deut.

Damit, dass Elifas, Bildad und Zofar ganz im Sinne der Tradition von Hiob das Nachdenken über das Verhältnis zwischen Gott und Mensch verlangen, aber am Ende doch von Gott verurteilt werden, wirft das Buch Hiob eine der großen und komplizierten Fragen der alttestamentlichen Exegese auf.

Informed by the understanding that all texts are intertexts, this work develops and employs a method that utilizes the concept of intertextuality for the purpose of exploring the history of interpretation of a biblical text.

Die Studie untersucht aus einem religionshistorischen Blickwinkel Aussagegehalt und Theologie des Wächterbuches (1 Henoch 1–36) als eigenständiger frühjüdischer Schrift des 3.

This work explores the theological and social dimensions of generosity in the book of Sirach and contextualizes them within the culture and thought of Second Temple Judaism.

Das Phänomen der Polemik tritt erstmals in der philosophischen und politischen Begriffs- und Streitkultur der Griechen auf.

This book examines Paul's use of temple, priesthood, and sacrificial metaphors from a cognitive and socio-literary perspective.

The volume On Stone and Scroll addresses biblical exegesis from the historical, archaeological, theological, and linguistic perspectives, and discusses many of the issues central to the interpretation of the Bible.

The focus of this book is on early Jewish interpretations of the ambiguous relationship between God and 'the angel of the Lord/God' in texts like Genesis 16, 22 and 31.

This volume presents selected papers read at the first meeting of the Society for Jewish and Biblical Studies in Central Europe, in Piliscsaba, Hungary, February 2009, but does not publish the proceedings of this meeting (for a clarification see here).

This collection of essays is a tribute to Rachel Elior's decades of teaching, scholarship and mentoring.

Scholars have long recognized the importance of Paul's citations from the Pentateuch for understanding the argument of Galatians.

This book is dedicated entirely to the interpretation of Paul's Letter to Philemon.

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In this book the author thoroughly examines the pentateuchal elohistic source, its structural unity and its relationship to the yahwistic source.

Scholars have long noted the prevalence of praise of God in Luke-Acts.

This monograph on John 9 makes extensive use of premodern Christian exegesis as a resource for New Testament studies.

Efforts at interpreting Joban poetry have often been divided between philological and literary critics.

Der Neue Wettstein ist eine Sammlung von Paralleltexten aus der griechisch- und lateinischsprachigen Umwelt des Neuen Testaments.

Dieser aggadische mittelalterliche Midrasch, der in homiletischer Interpretation Verse aus Genesis und Exodus behandelt, war bisher nur in einer der beiden Erstdruckvarianten bekannt.

The book examines the history of the genesis of all the Old Testament texts where there is talk of "Jehovah's Ark" or "The Ark of the Covenant", i.

In one form or another, the Trisagion, "e;Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory"e;, entered Jewish and Christian liturgy at an early stage from Isaiah's account of his vision as recorded in Isaiah 6.

Luke-Acts is the first early Christian writing to which serious historiographical interest can be attributed.

Manuscripts of the New Testament frequently contain, in addition to the text, supplementary information such as excerpts from the Fathers, chapter lists, quotation lists, introductions to sections, for example, the Pauline letters, and to individual books.

Der Band versammelt Studien zur Theologiegeschichte und der Umwelt des Neuen Testaments.

In der vorliegenden Ausgabe werden die bislang wenig beachteten Jesajahomilien des Origenes erstmalig ins Deutsche übersetzt sowie mit Einzelerklärungen und einer umfangreichen Einleitung versehen.

In diesem Band sind die erhaltenen Fragmente aus der Genesiskommentierung ediert; die Auszüge stammen aus seinem Genesiskommentar, der die Schöpfungsgeschichte (Gen 1,1-5,1) kommentierte, und aus den Scholien, die sich auf den Rest des biblischen Buches bezogen.

Ausgangspunkt dieses Bandes ist ein Exkurs im Bellum Iudaicum des hier dem Ambrosius zugeschriebenen sog.

Das biblische Buch Esther erzählt den Aufstieg des jüdischen Waisenkindes zur Königin Persiens und die Erhebung des loyalen Juden Mordechai zum zweiten Mann nach dem König sowie die gleichsam wunderbare Errettung des Gottesvolkes Israel, dessen Existenz durch den perfiden Statthalter Haman bedroht ist.